Books like The Nineties
12 books with a reading profile close to The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
James W.
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jason Reynolds adapts Ibram X.
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BLACK AF HISTORY
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Michael Harriot reconstructs the American timeline by centering Black agency rather than treating it as a footnote to white narratives.
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RAGE AND THE REPUBLIC
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jonathan Turley examines the history of public fury in the United States, tracking how political anger has shaped constitutional law and legislative cycles from the colonial era to the present.
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that modern democracies rarely collapse through violent military coups but instead erode from within through the legal subversion of institutions.
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
history, analytical
Mikki Kendall identifies a fundamental disconnect between mainstream feminist rhetoric and the lived realities of localized communities.
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7
REGIME CHANGE
by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
history, analytical
Reni Eddo-Lodge examines the disconnect in British racial discourse, beginning with a viral blog post regarding the emotional labor required to explain prejudice to those who deny its existence.
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9
EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
by John Green
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
John Green tracks the history and persistence of tuberculosis, a bacterial infection that has killed more humans than any other pathogen.
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
by Tim Marshall
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Tim Marshall examines how physical landscapes and regional borders dictate the strategic calculations of modern nations.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Erik Larson weaves together the true accounts of two men who shaped Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
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Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About
by Laura Bates
history, analytical
Laura Bates investigates the interconnected subcultures of the "manosphere," documenting how online communities like Incels, Men’s Rights Activists, and Pick Up Artists foster systemic misogyny.
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